Skilled Deaf Readers Have an Enhanced Perceptual Span in Reading

Psychological Science

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 816-823

  Bélanger, Nathalie N ^a   Slattery, Timothy J ^a   Mayberry, Rachel I ^b   Rayner, Keith ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

deaf readers; eye movements; individual differences; literacy; perceptual span; reading; reading skill; visual processing in the parafovea

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863966788     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797611435130     Document Type: Article

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